Chapter 28: Care of Magical Creatures Part 2

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Manny- Thanks! I'm glad I made you laugh! lol,

R.T.- Thanks for your review, great observations. Look for Bethany again soon! Bree does have quite a temper doesn't she? Lol

Shannon- Lol odd how I pick a random name and the person reading it happens to have the same name. Lol, thanks for the review!

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Hawaiikel- their sort of based off real people. The names are based off people I know but not really their appearance. Some of them have the same appearance as some ppl I know, but some I made up. Lol, Sirius is a kid in many ways, yes, I can see Ross jumping around like that too. Lily could've told Dumbledore she wanted to stay in the main dorm but that would've made it seem like she didn't appreciate having the Head Girl position. If she really wants to be a great Head Girl, I think she needs to put up with James. Besides, Lily is not the type just to give in so easily and change the dorm. She is very stubborn. Everyone wants their own room at one point as well. Lol, also, with the Bree issue, ppl tried to help Bree, but she is supper stubborn and refused to believe that she really was hurt. She didn't want to go to the Hospital Wing and have Sirius see her. Then she'd think that she'd 'loose the battle' between her and Sirius. Thanks for your review! Hope that answered some of your questions!! Also, I don't know exactly how many chapters I will be having in this story. Sorry but I don't think I can email you either. I'd like to, but I think I would forget. If you make a sn with and click, alert me when this writer updates, or something, then will email you when I update.

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Welp, chapter 28!!

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"Ugh, that thing is disgusting!" Sirius cried when Remus popped the crate open.

"Let's name it!" Riley cried.

"His name is Sirius," Bree stated, "Because he's ugly and annoying."

"Haha," Sirius laughed sarcastically.

"Come on, Sirius," Bree said picking up the Fire Toad, "Our of you're little crate."

Remus, Riley, Bree, and Sirius all bent down and looked at the toad-like creature. No one seemed very interested.

"I'm cold." Sirius said after seven minutes of looking at the toad, "This is stupid."

"Of course he's stupid," Bree replied, "That's why he's named after you."

"Alright," Remus stated, "Why do you think this animal is so special in the winter?"

"Because its no fun to have it in the summer." Sirius stated, "When it's hot."

"That's it!" Riley exclaimed, "It can blow fire!"

"Good job, Rye." Remus congratulated.

"Thanks." She smiled.

"I knew that." Sirius shrugged standing up.

"Right," Bree rolled her eyes. She looked at her wristwatch and sighed, "Well, we have twenty more minutes looking at little ol' ugly Sirius here before we go up to the castle for Muggle Studies."

"I say," Sirius said, his face brightening up, "That we get warm."

"How do you expect we do that?" Remus asked, putting the Fire toad back in the crate carefully. But, unfortunately, little ol' Sirius didn't like that and he spat a ball of fire onto Remus' hand.

"Ow!" Remus yelled. Riley immediately whipped out her wand and poured water onto Remus' hand, "Thanks."

"No problem." She grinned putting her wand away.

Sirius walked over to the toad and glanced at it, "He is our key to warmth."

"Padfoot, you fool, that's ridiculous." Remus replied, "This is fire we are dealing with. What if things get out of control?"

"And what if they don't?" Sirius questioned.

"It is cold." Bree sighed, "I'm in."

Riley looked down at her hands, "I don't know guys."

"I'm not going to be apart of this." Remus said sitting down on a rock, "Anything that comes out of his mind is bad."

"Not all of my ideas are bad." Sirius winked.

"Not all," Remus replied, "But most."

"Okay, most are bad." Sirius gave it, "But this one is brilliant."

"Like I said, I'm out." Remus stated then turned to Riley and Bree, "And if you two were smart you'd be out too."

"I agree with Remus." Riley said sitting down next to Remus.

"Are you in, Livingston?" Sirius asked looking at Bree.

Bree looked over at her brother and glared, "Yeah."

Bree and Sirius both walked over to the crate. They decided that it would probably be best to take the crate to the edge of the forest and use the Fire toad's fire there. That way, no teacher could see them.

"Okay, how did Remus make this thing blow fire?" Sirius asked bending down and looking at him.

"Dunno," Bree shrugged, "Maybe we should watch it for a minute and see if it does anything."

"Okay, sounds good." Sirius sat down on a rock Bree was sitting on.

"So," he started, "Why are you doing this anyway?"

Bree shrugged, "I'm cold."

"That's not the reason." Sirius grinned, "You would not agree with one of my crazy ideas just because you were cold. You hate me remember?"

"Yeah, I remember." Bree sighed, resting her chin in her hands, "I just wanted to do something to get my brother mad at me. I'm mad at him and I want him to know that I'm serious this time. Everytime we get into an argument he thinks I'm joking."

"Oh, so its revenge?" he laughed.

"If you want to call it that." She replied.

"What's your family like?" Sirius questioned.

"Their fine I guess." She shrugged, "My parents are great, but my brother can get on the annoying side."

"Yeah, I know what you mean about brothers." He grinned.

"You have a brother?"

"Yeah," he replied staring at his feet, "He's in Slytherin."

"Oh, that's right." Bree remembered, "What's it like…to live in your house?"

"Well, I now live with the Potters." He replied, "But it was terrible. My mother favored my brother all the time. My father was always gone. And I was the troublemaker. My mom hates me and always will. They are deep into the dark arts and I just wasn't like that. She threatened to kill me a couple of times."

"That's terrible."

"Yeah," he stated. He mood suddenly changed to a more cheerful voice, as if he was trying to forget about his past, "But I live with the Potter's now and their great. After Hogwarts I'm going to get a place of my own."

"Good for you." Bree replied staring at Sirius in the eyes. Sirius looked back at Bree and their eyes locked.

"You have really blue eyes." He whispered leaning forward.

"Yeah, I know." She replied. Then she suddenly started to laugh, "That is the second time you tried to kiss me this year!"

"Sorry." Sirius blushed, "I may not like you, but I'm still attracted to you."

"Is that the line you use all the time?" she giggled.

"No, because I like most girls." He laughed, "Let's get this toad fired up."

"Sounds good." She replied standing up. They walked over to the crate and Sirius picked up the toad.

"Now, I think Remus got him mad or something." Sirius stated looking at the toad and shaking it.

"Here," she put a bunch of twigs on the snowy ground, "See if it lights those on fire."

Sure enough, when Sirius put the toad down on the ground it wobbled over to the twigs and lit them on fire.

"Nice!" Sirius cried picking up an end of the stick.

They both walked over to Remus and Riley and left the toad on the ground. Forgetting, that it can breathe fire in a snowy forest.

"Hey look!" Sirius called to Remus.

"Shush!" Remus called back looking at the Professors', whose backs were turned.

"You are nutters, Padfoot." He stated, "Put that fire out."

"No, it's keeping us warm." He replied pretending to shove the fire in Remus' face.

"Well, class is almost over." Riley said looking at her watch, "I suggest you put that out before they come over here."

"Too late." Bree said trying to hide Sirius and the fire behind her back.

"How are things going?" Jason asked once he reached their group.

"Super!" Bree said, sounding nervous.

"Really? No arguing?" he asked, sounding surprised.

"None!" Sirius replied.

"Yeah," Bree added, "You were right, all we needed was to work together to get along."

"I'm glad you realized that I was right." Jason smiled. He walked forward to give Bree a hug but instead she took his hand and shook it. Jason looked at her oddly, but shook her hand anyway.

"Where is your fire toad?" Jason asked looking at all four of them.

"It's just…you know." Bree started.

"Taking a walk." Sirius added.

"Taking a walk!?" Jason nearly screamed, "They can't walk alone! They'll set the whole forest on fire!"

Jason stormed off where Bree and Sirius had come from.

"Taking a walk?" Bree asked angrily.

"And your excuse was better than mine?" Sirius returned, just as angry.

"Well, you could've thought of something a little more convincing." She spat.

"So now it's my fault?" he yelled.

"It's always your fault, Black!"

"Guys!" Remus yelled, stepping in between them, "Let's just find that toad before Jason does..

Riley added frustrated, "He could catch anything on fire!"

"Maybe." Sirius shrugged, "But this fire is keeping me warm and that's all that matters."

"C'mon," Bree stated, "Let's go and get the toad before Jason comes back."

"Good idea." Riley said leading the way.

The four of them hurried out of site and to the edge of the forest where Bree and Sirius left the toad. Sure enough, the toad had already started to light the forest on fire. Luckily for them, Jason wasn't anywhere in site.

"Sirius, no!" Riley whispered loudly.

"What?" Sirius asked, taking his eyes off his fire.

"Not you, dummy." Bree rolled her eyes, "The [I]other[/I] dummy."

"Oh," Sirius exclaimed.

"Padfoot, go and get that toad." Remus ordered.

"Why me?" Sirius pouted.

"Because you left him there!" Riley said putting some fire out with a water spell.

"She did it too!" he replied pointing at Bree.

"But if you notice, Padfoot," Remus stated, "She is busy putting the fire out like us."

"Fine." Sirius sighed. He stepped towards the flaming toad and carefully picked him up. He put him back inside the open crate and dragged it towards the group, "Happy?"

"Very." Riley replied, putting out the last bit of fire.

"Luckily we got him when we did." Bree said looking at the burnt trees.

"Yeah." Remus replied, restoring the old burnt looking trees back to life.

"C'mon," Riley said turning around, "Let's go back to the castle."

"Where it's warm!" Sirius exclaimed, bringing up the rear of the group.

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